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with its emphasis on resilience and community strengths, offers community leaders an alternative and constructive way of viewing the environmental factors that influence health and well-being as they undergo their strategic planning and needs assessment efforts to improve health outcomes and close health gaps for members of their communities.
Recommendations and next steps included: 1) distributing the tool widely through outreach and dissemination, especially to government agencies, community-based organizations, and others serving communities of color and low-income communities and actively working to address health disparities; 2) developing appropriate education and training materials to complement the tool and mediums for dissemination, including further refinement of the preliminary guidelines; 3) bringing THRIVE "to scale", i.e., advancing the THRIVE approach in communities throughout the country, and providing the appropriate training and technical assistance needed to do so; 4) tracking and evaluating the use of THRIVE to determine how it is being used, by whom, and to what effect, including identifying case studies, success stories, and promising practices; and 5) developing generic models of the tool more appropriate for urban vs rural settings.
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